A finding of violations would result in civil penalties assessed against the employer, Monterroza said. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office will determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that proper lockout/tagout procedure wasn't followed and that Jose was inside the machine when it was turned on.

Day_Old_Dutchie:You work on or inside powered/hazardous equipment, you lock it out.[imageshack.us image 263x192]Immediate dismissal, or death.

Came here for this. I wonder if he was doing some maintenance and didn't lock it out. Some employee in a control room saw that oven #2 wasn't cooking fish, and turned it back on. Wasn't locked out, so it turned on with the poor guy inside. Even if is a quick 15 second job, you should be locking them out.

MrBeetle:Day_Old_Dutchie: You work on or inside powered/hazardous equipment, you lock it out.[imageshack.us image 263x192]Immediate dismissal, or death.

Came here for this. I wonder if he was doing some maintenance and didn't lock it out. Some employee in a control room saw that oven #2 wasn't cooking fish, and turned it back on. Wasn't locked out, so it turned on with the poor guy inside. Even if is a quick 15 second job, you should be locking them out.

Yep, now someone's dead and I imagine some others are in a whole lot of trouble. Lockout/Tagout is RULE NUMBER ONE. Link

ransack.:God damn, that is truly horrible. Burning to death is, in my mind, probably the worst way to die.

He was scalded to death by the steam.

[Cue "Wreck of the Ol' 97"]

I've been told by people who did that sort of work that this was a horrible fate that daily hung over the heads of crewmen working in the engineering spaces of naval ships. One guy who was on the fire party of a ship I was on got to clean up after a steam leak that poached everyone in the space. He said that when they cracked open the hatch they found a mass of cooked bodies packed under it like sardines. Limbs came off when they tried to pull them out.

LeglessDog:hitlersbrain: Keep voting republican and you can see stories like this every day.

Obvious troll is obvious. Use some tact.

I don't think that's trolling. Without OSHA keeping an eye on worker safety, many companies wouldn't concern themselves with it. Some would voluntarily care, but as history has shown us you might end up eating a lot of Soylent Green.